Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)

There are 73,000 families with preschool children relying on child care providers to enable them to work. However, the regulation and administration of the current regulations is patchy in many instances. It is from talking to people working within the system that one hears of the limited ability of the HSE to inspect childminders who should notify to the HSE but do not. This is an issue the Minister needs to examine further in regard to-----

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